It is hard to shock journalists and at the same time leave them in awe of the power of nature. A group returning from a helicopter trip flying over, then landing on, the Greenland ice cap at the time of maximum ice melt last month were shaken. One shrugged and said, “It is too late already.”What they were all talking about was the moulins, not one moulin but hundreds, possibly thousands. “Moulin” is a word I had only just become familiar with. It is the name for a giant hole in a glacier through which millions of gallons of melt water cascade through to the rock below. The water has the effect of lubricating the glaciers so they move at three times the rate that they did previously.
Some of these moulins in Greenland are so big that they run on the scale of Niagra Falls. The scientists who accompanied these journalists on the trip were almost as alarmed. That is pretty significant because they are world experts on ice and Greenland in particular.
http://www.emagazine.com/view/?3997
Some scientists are now predicting that seas may rise by up to 7 metres by 2013. And still the powers that be are seeking to continue with business as usual. This whole industrial civilisation needs to stop NOW. It impoverishes the lives of almost all it touches, turning human animals into wage slaves to the machine and nonhuman animals and forest, oceans, landscapes into ‘resources’ and then barren, dead wastelands….
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